Don't let a faded or cracked dash pad mar the interior of your 1965 Mustang! You can easily replace this piece with this new Ford Tooling Dash Pad, available from CJ Pony Parts!

Features and Benefits: - Made from Original Ford Tooling - Superior Quality, Shape and Fitment - Made Out of High-Quality Materials - Factory-Style Texture - Available in Six Different Factory-Style Interior Colors - Direct Fit Replacement

This Dash Pad is made out of high-quality materials using original Ford tooling! It offers superior quality, shape and fitment, and it even retains the original's nice-looking factory-style texture! You'll find that this direct fit replacement isn't too difficult to install, and you'll love how nice your Mustang's interior looks after you're done putting it in. It comes in many different factory-style interior colors so it'll be easy for you to find the perfect color to match your Mustang's interior!

Please Note: This dash pad does not come with new hardware. You can re-use your original hardware or order new hardware (HW309). Please indicate your desired color choice in the drop-down menu.

In your Mustang, what kind of condition is the dash pad and its trim in? If it is typical of other Mustang dash pads and trim from many Mustangs, it might look rather faded or cracked. CJ Pony Parts stocks plenty of dash pads, trim and accessories for your Mustang, so you can give this area a major appearance upgrade.

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Rated 5 out of
5 by
robb86 from
Perfect fit!I got this to replace my warping '65 Fastback dash. It fits wonderfully and looks amazing. Easy installation. My only complaint is purely my own fault. The dash that was in my '65 is clearly a '66 with the two pieces that come down by the radio. Not the products fault or CJPony, I should have verified as it is even noticable in the product photo. It fits my dash beautifully and if I get the '65 dash trim and repaint the parts that were covered by the previous dash, it would look amazing.

Date published: 2016-02-23

Rated 5 out of
5 by
West Coast Collector Cars from
Nice qualityI purchased this "Ford Tooling" dash pad because, as I understand it, the quality is superior to the other reproduction dash pads, and the accuracy of the molding makes for ease of installation. I have not installed the dash pad yet, but I can see the quality here, and that makes this dash pad a great choice. I believe for the extra cost, you're miles ahead to pony up for this quality piece.

Date published: 2015-07-18

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Dfritz from
Correct Dash PadWARNING!!! Don't use others aftermarket dash pads. This one is the best. Don't bother trying to save any money by going with the cheaper option. It's not worth it. Tooling on this was spot on and all the holes were very close, if not almost perfect. Well worth the money.

Date published: 2015-02-23

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Cojo19 from
Great!Looks good and makes my car look great. I'll be happy to finish the project up

By Bill Tumas:
We've already upgraded the radio, the speakers, and the antenna on our Weekend Wrench project car. Today, we're going to continue
the interior upgrades with this Ford Tooling Dash Pad. Cracked and warped dash pads are very common in 1960s Mustangs like our
1965, so follow along. We're going to show you how to install one.

This dash pad was made from original Ford Tooling,
so it's going to be an exact copy of our original pad, right down to the grain inside the vinyl. Flipping it over, it has the
correct studs for installation. It even has the Ford logo embossed on the inside. For this installation, you'll need a phillips-
head screwdriver, a short or right angle phillips-head screwdriver, 1/4" ratchet, short extension, 3/8" socket, panel removal
tool, pick, plastic pry bar, flashlight, and a razor blade.

We're ready to install our new dash pad. The dash pad in
our 1965 is actually not in that bad of shape, but it's an aftermarket reproduction, so we want to upgrade to the Ford Tooling
piece. The dash pad is held in by these brackets above your glove box, and above the cluster, and two more brackets on the
windshield. You'll also have to remove your speaker grill, and your speaker, to pull out the dash pad. I'm going to remove the two
screws holding our dash speaker grill in. A short or right hand screwdriver will make this a lot easier. Now I'll remove the four
screws holding in our speaker. Since our speaker is soldered to our terminal here, we're going to slide it through the dash, and
rest it on top of the stereo. That will allow us to pull our dash pad out.

Now we're going to pull out the brackets
between the and the windshield. I'll remove the trim around our gauge cluster. Once you have the screws off, your two door panel
screw clips in the middle have to be removed as well. That will leave the pieces above our glove box. The clips are a little
tighter on this side, so we're going to use our door panel removal tool to get them off. The last hardware holding in our dash
pad, is going to be these two studs. There's one on each side. Now we're going to remove the clips that hold in our defroster
vents. Simply push up from underneath and they'll pop right out. On the outside one here, you can use a pick to give you a hand.
Defroster ducts are normally going to be clamped on. At some point in time, ours were taped, so we're going to remove the tape so
we can get them off. Now we're going to pull down on the center here to release the two studs from the dash, and remove our old
dash pad. Since we found our defroster hoses were taped to the top, we checked the bottom, they're also taped up down here. While
we have our dash pad apart, we're going to put a new set in from Scott Drake.

Now we're ready to begin the installation
of our new dash pad. We're going to start by laying the pad on top. Get these two studs aligned with the bottom of the dash, and
use them as anchors to install everything else. We're going to install some quad washers and nuts on the back of the studs. You
want to tighten these down snug. Be careful not to over tighten them, since the stud is in the vinyl it can strip easily. The
bottom of the dash pad is pre-drilled for four of the five holes to put our molding on. We're going to start with the clips in the
center. You want to kind of push down and in on the pad, to line up the holes with the metal hole in the dash. You want to get
everything lined up here, again, the hole in the dash with the hole in the pad. Again, these molding are fairly thin, get them
snug, no reason to over crank them.

Now we can install our new defroster vents. We're going to push the vinyl as far
forward as possible to make the holes accessible for the ducts. In this case, we're going to trim it out just a little bit to make
it easier to get to. Since our original vents were all taped up, we ordered a new set of hoses and a new set of vents. Fit that
into place and use the supplied clips. Now we're going to bring our speaker back up so it's sitting flat here. Now put our speaker
grill back into place here. Poke holes through the vinyl to find the mounting holes. Now we're going to make sure the vinyl from
our dash pad is going to be underneath the window weather stripping. Using a flat-head screw driver, or a plastic pry bar, push
straight across and make sure it's underneath. Usually the middle's not a problem, but sometimes on the edges it will get hung up
just a little bit.

Now we're going to lay our window molding in place. We're going to start with the center hole, it's
usually the easiest one to see. You don't want to tighten this down all the way. Tighten just enough so it doesn't move, so you've
got a little play to get the other holes lined up. Once we get the ends in, then we're going to go back and tighten up our center
screw. And we're finished with our dash pad. Getting the screws in this dash pad is going to be probably one of the most time
consuming parts of the installation. Getting the lineup just right can take a little bit of time, but if you use a pick to find
the hole, it will make it a lot easier. For the last step, we're going to connect our new hoses. Fish them down under the dash,
and connect them to our pipe, and our installation is finished.

Even though the dash pad we removed from our Weekend
Wrench wasn't really in bad shape, our Ford Tooling dash pad is still a huge improvement. If you have a typically damaged, warped
dash pad in your 1960s Mustang, this is going to me a night and day difference when you're finished. Figure installation is going
to take you about an hour and a half to two hours, you'll be back on the road in no time.